Keep in mind that a stripe set will use only the lowest common disk space on each physical drive. If you create a stripe set with three disks with 200 MB, 100 MB, and 50 MB of free space, each part of the stripe set would only be 50 MB with a maximum of 150 MB partition in total. In addition to this, you would lose one-third of your drive to parity information leaving you with only 100 MB for data storage.

This routine checks for ftpfile.txt every 200 seconds. The sleep.exe program is necessary and is supplied with the Windows NT resource kit. This type of routine is very handy when you need to run a program once a file has been sent via FTP to your computer.

Compact Your Database

Is your WINS database getting too big? If so, you can compact it by running the following case-sensitive commands from an MS-DOS prompt:

NET STOP WINS
JETPACK WINS.MDB TEMP.MDB
NET START WINS

These commands stop the WINS service and copy the WINS database to a file called TEMP.MDB. The TEMP.MDB file is then compacted. Once the file has been compacted successfully, it's copied to WINS.MDB and the temp file is deleted. Finally, the WINS service is restarted.

If a Service or Driver Fails to Start

By Brien M. Posey, MCSE

When Windows NT boots, have you ever seen a message indicating that at least one service or driver failed to start? You can find out which service or driver is causing the problem by opening the Control Panel and looking under the Devices and Services dialog boxes. The device or service causing the problem will be the one that has a startup type of Automatic, but isn't started. Once you know which device or service is causing the problem, you can use the Event Viewer to get more information.

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